the wow, political observers argue his government has led a dismantling of democratic institution. ah or the u. i says it's diplomats will not be attending the beijing winter olympics china, as promised the firm response. ah, 11 o'clock, this is al jazeera life from dell hall, also coming up. and when we wanted vaccines, they just kept, you know, giving us the crumbs from the table. south africa's president, it's out of government. so with the failure to, to live own promises of covered 19 bryce scenes for africa.

and ambien police photographs protests as who refused to accept president bell or bars rarely. and the by the ministration revives a policy that will keep migrants in mexico while they're asylum cases. are viewed ah, citing what it called human rights atrocities and genocide, united states is announced a diplomatic boycott of chime it's winter olympics. it means no american government officials will attend. there won't be an impact on athletes heading to the games. got here, lopez jolla was this report political tension between the us and china, now playing out and next year's winter olympics and beijing, you as president joe biden said for weeks he was considering a diplomatic boycott of the games over china's human rights record, particularly what washington says as genocide against weaker muslims in shing young

province, the biden administration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the beijing 2022 winter olympics and paralympic games given the pierre scenes ongoing genocide and crimes against a humanity engine, john and other human rights abuses, the athletes and team usa have our full support will be behind them 100 percent as we cheered them on from home. oh, china is accused of detaining more than a 1000000 weaker muslims, and other minorities in camps were forced labor and serialization of women are allegedly common. beijing denies this before the boycott was announced. it warn't of count from years, but also talked down and he likely impact from the us move sooner. you sure. you know politicians who clamor boycott for political self interest. i just showing off and i pick things up with nobody cares whether they come or not. and it will have

no influence on basing success in hosting the winter olympics. the boycott is moving forward despite recent efforts to stabilize ties, including last month's a video meeting between biden and chinese presidency ging pink. i think what we're seeing now is both united states and china testing the waters and going back and forth on politics and the olympics become a platform or a proxy for engaging in political verbal battle. let's just hope it stays at verbal . we're entering a perilous moment and the olympics are sort of adding up the tension between the 2 countries in ways that are much bigger than the olympics. the us also applauded the woman's tennis association for suspending all tournaments and china over concerns for the safety of chinese ton of star peng. why? with the olympics coming to the u. s. in 2028. there are now questions about how china may respond both in the short and long term. katya lopez of the young al jazeera book treaty. you has the latest on reaction from officials in beijing. they

have been repeating the same kind of sentiments over the past few weeks when these 1st rumors came out that the u. s. was mulling over this move. china has acute washington, a political grandstanding, political, political manipulation of distorting the spirit of the games. and we've had chinese state media similarly expressed the same sentiment, saying that this is the us trying to contain china and reflecting a cold war mentality. so this will no doubt escalate tensions just weeks after president jor biden. and present, she didn't think, sat down to a video colon at the time the business community world to mystic that the relationship was at least stabilizing. and now this is against spiked concerns about what this might mean for the 2 countries trade between the 2 countries exchanges between the 2 countries. paging is currently mulling over what exactly it's going to do to respond,

but we're yet to hear any details about what those counter measures might look like in the lympics are supposed to be this really big positive event. it's supposed to represent a sense of unity and for china, they were really hoping that this event could really represent its own. you standing on the global stage, its own new role as a leader in the east. so the fact that the u. s. is not attending and potentially other western countries could follow suit. other officials may not attend from countries which are allied with the u. s. that could really damage china's credibility and damage its image. in south africa, the president has stepped up, his fits criticism of the way countries have reacted to the new on the chrome variance of the current of our us. so we'll run a post made the remarks during peace and security for incentive goal. st governments have also failed to deliver cave in 1900 vaccines that they promised to africa from docker is nicholas huck. the fight against the new omicron variant in

senegal starts here at a health center in downtown to car, were doses of the coven. 19 vaccines are available monday with the can. the it's not because we have a vaccine that we're america. we need to keep protective measures and protect those around us. it's not over at the today peace and security form held in the car on monday, south africa as president, serial number posts are accused rich countries of creating health apartheid. i have personally really been disappointed in the approach, but the rich countries have taken on the issue of vaccines. firstly, they hoarded vaccines. they ordered more vaccines than their populations required. and when we wanted vaccines, they just kept, you know, giving us the crumbs from the table. and the greed that they demonstrated is something that is quite, quite disappointing. indeed,

particularly when they say they are our partners. the pandemic overshadow. the 7 piece insecurity form held here which welcomed heads of state intelligence officers and military chiefs. usually discussions and the forum revolves around greater military cooperation between western nations and african countries. but with western countries breaking their promise to supply vaccines in their unwillingness to wave patterns, to allow people here to make their own trust is eroding with some nation, looking at new partnerships to help the fight against cove it in africa, china and out it's sending 1000000000 doses of vaccines on the fight against arm groups. in this a hell region, new year's president admitted that al qaeda affiliate or in some places better equipped than the security forces of some countries in west africa following

increased attacks. molly, seeking help from the russian mercenaries working for wagner, the private military company. thus way conflict, my lee have decided to go more and more for davis, if occasional for partnerships, we can work with china, we can, will give her russia also at the form delegates from western nations reiterated their good will and intentions. but countries such as south african senegal, say that's not good enough. vaccines made in africa for africans is what they want . almost a quarter of a 1000000 africans are reported to have died of the virus so far. the message here is those death where preventable. if only victims had access to vaccines, nicholas hawk al jazeera de car, a growing number of school students in south korea have tested post difficult 19 since they went back to class late last month, nearly 1500 students tested positive and sol alone last week. that's more than

a 30 percent increase from the week before the number of critically ill terrain of ours patients is also hit record. the mayor of new york city has announced plans to make cove in 1900 vaccinations, compulsory for all workers in the private sector. it is the most sweeping crone of arts related measure of any states or big us city. build also said children age between 5 and 11, will soon need at least one vaccine dose to enter restaurants. and 5th. i describe the actions we're taking today as a preemptive strike. get ahead of this problem before it deepens and use the thing that works. vaccination, we can talk about all the other tools and we will. but the vaccination is the central weapon in this war against covert. it's a one thing that has worked every single time across the board on a strategic level. it's the reason new york city is back in so many ways. that's the reason we can avoid shut downs and restrictions. a south african crew members suspected it being infected with the compare interest among the 17 cases of cobra.

19 detected on a u. s. cruise ship. it left new orleans in the last week of november and made stops, and believes on doris and mexico. before returning a controversial trump here policy keeping migraines in mexico while they wait for the us asylum cases to be processed is back, comes off the bite administration, reach a deal with mexico. but even though there will be exemptions, in some cases, human rights advocates worried some are challenge re desperate for answers. these migrants have been waiting for months for their applications to be processed . they're searching for safety and a better life. their proposal that there are people like me, you can go back because we have suffered a lot of violence in our country. we have internal law. and if we go back we will die. we have decided to wait and see what happens and see what decisions the u. s. government will take us president joe biden suspended the remain in mexico program,

calling it in humane, but a court order has forced it to be reinstated. former president donald trump used to the policy then known as the migrant protection protocols to send more than 70000 asylum applicants back to mexico, where they were forced to wait for months. human rights groups reported several cases of kidnapping, rape, and torture. but the white house says improvements to the scheme will give asylum seek legal representation. this program is hasn't demik was imposed under it has imposed unjustifiable human costs, pulled resources and personnel away from other priority efforts and failed to address the root causes of a regularly regular migration. deeply flawed, under guidance from mexico, the u. s. will now provide covert 19 vaccinations and exemptions such as for those with physical and mental health challenges. the 1st migrants are expected to be returned from the states of texas and california. this shelter is preparing for

a massive influx of people will come up. but under, but at the, near my, your, we are preparing to increase our capacity at the shelter. we had a capacity of 150. now we want to have a capacity of more than $200000.00 migrants because we believe that bell b a mobilization towards the northern border. while there is deep concern about the return of the policy, some remain hopeful. they can still begin a new life with their families in one of these, these se lethia. and it's really hard to be waiting and now again with the migrant protection protocols. but i think it is a really good thing because we have the hope to get another opportunity to wait and see if they let us cross into the u. s. and be with our families. the mexican government has said it's committed to maintaining the health and safety of asylum seekers. as the new program gets under way these migrants are hoping those promises are kept. her marriage audrey out years era still ahead here on out 0.

protest is back on the streets and saddam fearful that a deal to when the crew will really keep the military. i will tell you about coca starns di lemme choice between dirty coal for much needed energy. clean ah. but mostly settled conditions across the middle east. hello everyone. there is one exception. as we look toward the la vance, we've got a storm system swooping in. let me take you toward wednesday swath of rain and we're really going to see those winds pick up bay route gus to about 70 kilometers per hour. will go on for a closer look in his sack, but there is some nice weather to be found. we look toward pakistan, sunny in the south karachi, 29 degrees bit more cloud cover. the hor right through to his lama. but now to the eastern med because this is also plaguing turkey. seen it gathers steam through the

ser, madras', a fire hose of rain into on talia. so we'll look to pick up 50 millimeters of rain and look for those winds to go to 65 kilometers per hour. that's on tuesday. by wednesday, here we go into the levant. this becomes a story for you. and again, the root could see the wind gusts up to 70 kilometers per hour. exceptional heat, central africa put the colors on here. the darker the red, the higher the temperature jew. but 40 bungie 36. you could matcher, december record temperature, which is $36.00 degrees further toward the south. disturbed weather is southern angola, southern botswana, northeast of south africa. so we've got storms from bill, a whale rate through to johannesburg, but it's nice in cape town, the height of $23.00. that's it. susan. ah. the bond counting, the cost only drawn, puts oil and stock markets into a spin and the global economy battle through another code set that also green

hydrogen hats, clean energy of the future. and the billionaires broadcast isn't big bucks. india's i p o pretty counting the costs on al jazeera. we understand the differences in the cultures the course amount of what we've been using kind of for that matter to you a ah, again, you're watching out 0 reminder. our top story is this hour and the u. s. is announced . diplomatic boycott and paintings. winter olympics, accusing china of genocide in the treatment of muslim wiggers, american athletes will still compete on the games. china described to me with

political manipulation, south africa's presidents, as again criticized sweeping travel bands and placing this country because of the parents are accused. western governments are failing to deliver it to new york city will soon make it 19 vaccinations. compulsory for all workers in the private sector, it is the most sweeping corona far as related measure of any state or big u. s. more now on the u. s. diplomatic boycott or the paging winter olympics, it's been now from michael swain, his director of the east asia program, the quincy institute. he says, the boy coach will not force any change in china. i think it will have virtually now are, are 0 impact on, on their policies and she job and or their policies in hong kong. although i think that the justification for this kind of an action by the united states or, or something somewhat less than that. i would have said might have been better for the united states to extent it's china, ambassador chinese m a u. s. about sort of

a ging to the, to the event and him not make any statements at the event to just be there. but that's, you know, that's a judgment call, but i think that, you know, that's, they're not, they, they can't do that now. so they're, they're walked into a situation where they just have to go through the deployment of the chinese to take. they could refuse to send their own athletes to different games. it could take some kind of measures against the world tennis association or against other countries that were involved in this kind of a diplomatic boycott. by threatening to not have their athletes participate. but these would be really some of the very extreme measures, which i think would make the situation even worse for the chinese right now they have to think about, are there going to be other countries that are also going to join this diplomatic way? they think that's in habitable or perhaps not, and there were no other countries that join this boycott at the time united states announced that maybe we'll see more we'll see them coming on now. but so far know,

and so there may be, you know, the chinese may want to make sure that there are, there's not a cascading event more diplomatic way in this case. and so i would think that that would argue in favor of greater restraint on their part as opposed to threats or efforts to try to punish people or injure refugees in the united states. assuming facebook over allegations the company failed to act against hate speech, to talk to them, they're asking for a $150000000000.00 in damages allege. facebook's algorithm encourage uses to express extremist views within 24000 britain to have been killed in the amount since 2017. and that's when the government that began to crank down against minority community and hundreds of thousands fled to neighboring bangladesh. leaders of nato allies, united states, u. k. france, germany and italy have held a joint phone call about ukraine. the statement says they agreed that a united front is needed to confront what seen as russian hostility

a build up of russian forces on the border as res, fears of a possible invasion, which the criminal denies that will be the top focus of video link talks between vladimir putin and joe biden on tuesday dameion place at 5, tig asked to disperse, supporters were losing presidential candidate who's refusing to concede defeat the electoral commission declared incumbent darma barrow the winner with 53 percent of the vote. oh, dangerous, has this report now from bundle? this is the moment opposition support to say police choir t, i guess. as they gathered at the home of acquisition, u. d. p leader. we'll say to dabble the tense kind of happened at dublin hall just across the street from the united states embassy in the 2nd bay area. support is claimed, their candidate was robbed in saturday's presidential election and they won't back doubt incumbent item. a battle as again been declared president is 1st time came

after the oppressive 22. we are all a former lead, a jump mot barrel to step down. they rigged the election. the results are worse than what was announced during yard jamie's rain. even he didn't defeat the u . d. p. with this margin. witnesses say this kemesha began after us torn was cast at the police. will then responded with tear gas and arrest incidents like this have been reported elsewhere. witnesses say clashes of happened between supporters of the governing party and the main opposition? lana. how can we do this up? i'm not going to have him to do that. doesn't mean that that, that is not wrong. i do not understand him. i'll provide it was the vanity that i was that i know some of these hopes of gum bias. post election period would be hit free. what dash by these incidents now, even the position of opposition lead,

it will say no double regarding the outcome of this election suffered a setback on monday, one of the candidates who attended a meetings house while the results of the elections were rejected. cold and congratulated preston adam about election of service from both the african union and european union found no major problems in the electoral process. or are the candidates like had he for some have already conceded defeat st. gubbins, have spoken. why do would deliver it? would it is not my prerogative to imply that water is dev, weights if did that, which is that it is forced accent and the police have issued a statement by way to deal with troublemakers. i'm with some offices you support are saying they won't back down. it could be attempts post election period for the gap. yeah. i'm a decrease al jazeera but june, the gambia. if the open government forces of one more battlefield victories against

rebels from the laws that grown people's liberation front or t p l f appears to be retreating in am, horror, and a far regions which labor to grow where the rebels are based. soldiers loyal to prime minister aubrey hoffman have now taken back the tons of dessie and can boucher, their strategically important because they sit on a national highway. a spokesman for the to grand forces confirmed, they have withdrawn, saying, we left north sher can vulture and darcy as part of our plan. there was no organize unit to liberate these towns and the residents note, and abby's general's night things are going according to our plan to suit on where thousands of returns of the streets, maintaining protests against october's military takeover in a subsequent deal that reinstated the prime minister they say that abdullah ham dog betrayed them by agreeing to a government dominated by generals. hipaa. morgan reports now from culture. it started with a few 100 people in different parts of the dance capital cartoon. but soon the

numbers swelled to 1000. protesters returning back to the 3 to voice their condemnation of a deal find between the army leader, general adam for the helper han and prime minister of the landfill. last month, the agreement came after put upon let a military takeover in october. placing had built under house arrest for nearly a month. if i get the deal has a lot of things that a vague and could be interpreted in favor of our demands or against it. but the problem is it was signed by someone who doesn't have a right to sign it as someone who doesn't deserve it. go ham, look, just not represent those on the street. and the military cannot be trusted. that the takeover is how the dissolution of the 2 year transitional government, which was shared by the military and civilian coalition, known as the forces of freedom and change. they were presented the protest movement that led to the overthrow of sedans. long time president armitage bitchy other regions around the country also came out in protest of the deal, including the state of priscilla in the east. therefore in the west and just the

estates which neighbors hot wow, scared monkey. the corner from the army can't be possible government because they are the ones who come and kill us. they can't be the same ones to come and rule us . so we're coming out against the army chief behind and his deputy allison recommend it. they should not use their bullets and tear gas on us and our children, let them use it in a room for the army should be in the barracks if they were wearing civilian clothing, they could have stood with us or like a family from various parts of the city theatre with family, none of you can with across the mile, thousands gathered in front of the presidential palace on monday to voice their anger at the military and the deal. security forces use tear gas to disperse them.

since the takeover medical workers there at least 44 people have been killed and nearly 300 injured yet more protests are scheduled for the coming days. many here say they won't stop until their demands for a full civil in government is meant to guarantee to dance, transition to democracy. he but morgan august 0. houghton france will close night clubs and titan, social distancing rules in response to the only cranberry and 12 coven. 19 a prime minister joel cast exit says the countries now in its 5th wave of the pandemic. a but he believes a high vaccination rates and the re, introduction of some restrictions will prevent the need for more locked downs and curfews and his andrew simmons from london on the situation in the u. k. there will be similar measures from scotland and wales and northern ireland. that's been said that these measures basically reintroducing further measures which were out earlier . but britain in particular,

criticized for being slow with its travel restrictions. it's going slowly because it feels that the booster jap will actually bring it into a safer position than other states because of the faster rollout. but there'll be a p c r, test mandatory within 48 hours of departing on the plane. and on arrival, there has to be a, a negative result from pcr test or within 48 hours. the has to be self isolation. and now nigeria has been added to the list of the read list of countries, which people have to go into a quarantine for a whole 10 days in a specified hotel. the government will norm that's caused outrage in nigeria. now the government has a straightforward policy. it believes it's doing these things as a, as a preventative measure, but it's real weapon against cove. it it believes is the bose booster 3rd jap. the question is, the additional pcr test that people come to this country take as

a precautionary measure and get the right thing to do. but of course, the real resilience that we're building up to any variants, including on the con, he's getting the boosters of the vaccine rolled out. we've got a 80 percent of those over 12 now having 2 jobs. and we got a 3rd of the country with either a 3rd job or a booster. that's the reason we can go to this come into his christmas as a country with stronger confidence. we can enjoy christmas in a way that, that up. what should we couldn't last year? yes, the government, they're holding a lot of faith in the boost a job will that be seen? will it work? people are unsure of it. however, it's a clear policy of this government not to carry gastorm or growing energy crisis is pushing the country to increasingly rely on coal. but that's making the a quality a lot worse as embers robbie reports now from pish kick. from vantage point overlooking bish kac, it's easy to see why curtis dan's capital is routinely ranked as the most polluted city in the world. air quality can be so poor. buildings don't disappear into the

horizon. they disappear into a cloud of smoke chimney stacks of an aging power plant. the main culprits dystopian giants dominating the skyline over a modernizing city all year round pumping smoke into the air and industrial waste into a nearby landfill. the carbon footprint of the cities combined heat and power plant is enormous. but it's still not enough. near the power plant, people are forced to burn cold to heat their homes in winter. you which you dictated to go all the way with, we don't use much electricity, we fire the pit and because we light fires and others do the same, the air goes bad. if you wake up in the morning, everything is black around there. sing on tv every day to save electricity, use less, get other light bulbs. we don't use electricity. so if we're not going to burn coal, what are we meant to do? it burns dirty and all over the world, there are calls to reduce its use. but in kurdistan, coal is king cheap, available,

and essential to the power grid built by the soviets. this coal burning power plant has been the main source of generating heat and electricity for curtis' done capital. bish tech. since the 1960 the country's power infrastructure is almost entirely soviet era with little to no investment in clean energy. this facility was abandoned after the fall of the ussr and never came on line. the current government plans to open it after retrofitting for natural gas, but the plan too expensive, is now on hold. and as long as call remains a quicker fix, the possibility of more pollution hangs in the air. it gives you more depth than by if they would stop burning of coal. and if the power plant was also working, it would be good. pollution is harmful for kids. on the other hand, it would be good if the power plant was working while it's not working yet i am not afraid, but me be in the future. i will have the demand for more power will mean burning

record amounts of coal and coming years. more air pollution, almost inevitable, leaving residents with little choice, but to ride it out. st. basra v o 0 discount. but their thought from indonesia, volcanic eruption has risen to $22.00 with many more injured, and others still missing a body by 13 year old boys, one of the latest to be recovered from the ash and mud for the volcanic activity. a rain on java has hampered search efforts, crumpled roofs of houses dot the smoldering landscape. ah, so mc clark with the headlines here on al jazeera and the united states has announced a diplomatic boycott, beijing's winter olympics, accusing china of genocide and the treatment of mr. wiggers, american athletes will still be able to compete in the games. china described move as a political manipulation.